FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r5/modules.

percy_vere_uk

Hi

I am new to gentoo.

I have been trying to install from the 2007 live cd i686 using gentoo-nofb kernel all from the cd. It stops and gives the following error message

The last part from from compile output log reads:

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var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/x11-wm/metacity-2.14.5
var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/x11-wm/metacity-2.16.3
var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/x11-wm/twm-1.0.1
var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/x11-wm/twm-1.0.2
var/cache/edb/dep/usr/portage/x11-wm/twm-1.0.3
FATAL: Could not open /lib/modules/2.6.19-gentoo-r5/modules.dep.temp for writing: Read-only file system

Any help would be appreciated.

percy

jw5801 · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 2:57 pm Post subject:

Have you entered a chroot before you attempt to run any emerge commands? Sounds as though you're attempting to install to the LiveCD filesystem, or else to a filesystem you've mounted read-only.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Dec 13, 2008 3:46 pm Post subject:

percy_vere_uk,

Welcome to Gentoo.

Your /mnt/gentoo (root) filesystem should not be read only.
The kernel can change the filesystem to read only after a disk error, to minimise filesystem damage.

Repeat the process of building the kernel. If you get the same error, run the command

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 2:59 pm Post subject:

Hi

Thank you both for your guidance on this. I have looked through the output log I cannot find any reference to "remounting .. read only" but there are reams of read only file system errors. I used the GTK+ installer so I did not have any say in the permissions so I am now thinking that perhaps I have partitioned incorrectly.

I already have 2 working linux systems on the pc which leaves me with 16 Gb of unallocated disk space for gentoo system. The 2 working systems share /dev/sda9 swap & all my documents are kept in a separate large partition so my /home would only need to be small. My idea behind installing gentoo is to learn more (Ho Ho) about linux so I will not be storing any of my own files on it.

So what I now propose to do is:

/ 13.5Gb
/boot 500MB
/home 2Gb
swap /dev/sda9

Does this seem reasonable. What should I input for mount options?

percy

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 3:34 pm Post subject:

percy_vere_uk,

Please don't use the GUI installer. Give it one go, if it works, fine, if not, use the time honoured stage3 install
/boot 64Mb and ext2 is plenty. You need not have a /boot at all.

If I were starting out a multi distro install, I would have /boot and <swap> both shared by all disros.
/boot because bootloaders can only read their configuration from a single location, so it saves having to mount the disro that has the boot loader config file in it to install a new kernel.
A root per distro and probably a /home per distro. You may be able to share /home but its risky because different distros provide different versions of the same packages and these can fight over set up options stored in /home/<user>

Boot into one of your other distros, do

percy_vere_uk · Posted: Mon Dec 15, 2008 11:00 am Post subject:

NeddySeagoon

Thanks for this advice, I have in fact made many attempts to install using the gui, so I will now take your advice, I will need to read up on this first so this will probably take me some time. When I get somewhere I will let you know.

By the way I am also a fan of the goons. My apologies if that is your real name!

percy